Nigel Farage has launched the Reform UK manifesto with a number of populist pledges including proposed spending of £141bn a year as the rightwing party seeks to make inroads into Labour heartlands.
Policies in the Reform programme, which Farage claimed was not a manifesto but a “contract” with the British public, included axing the net zero plan entirely and introducing life imprisonment for convicted drug dealers, along with wide-ranging cuts to personal tax, which have been greeted with scepticism by economists.
